Dr. Moritz Brake
Senior Fellow at CASSIS
Contact
E-Mail.: mbrake@uni-bonn.de
Address: Römerstraße 164, D-53117 Bonn
Profile
Moritz Brake is a Senior Fellow at the Center for Advanced Security, Strategic and Integration Studies (CASSIS) and a reserve officer in the German Navy. He received his PhD from the War Studies Department of King's College London in July 2022 with a thesis on the German Navy as an instrument of foreign policy. He is a member of the German Maritime Institute (DMI) and an auditor of the French Institut des Hautes Études de Défense National (IHEDN). In addition to a Master's degree in War Studies from King's College London, Brake holds a nautical patent and an engineering degree in nautical science from Jade University in Elsfleth, Germany. In active naval service, he most recently served as a youth officer in public relations as a security policy advisor on behalf of the German government, and served in the UN mission UNIFIL (Eastern Mediterranean, Lebanon, 2007) and the EU anti-piracy mission ATALANTA in the Horn of Africa (2010 & 2011), in addition to seagoing service on merchant and warships.
With expertise in maritime security, industry and project management, Dr. Moritz Brake co-founded Nexmaris.EU - Maritime Resilience: Consulting, Security, and Beyond with Bertrand Mignot to meet the increased demand for maritime security consulting and product solutions in the changing security environment since the turn of the millennium. Moritz Brake is an honorary member and deputy spokesperson of the Leuchtfeuer Foundation Board. As a recognized provider of child and youth welfare services, the Leuchtfeuer Foundation is active for young people throughout Europe.
Dr. Moritz Brake discussed the protection of maritime infrastructures in the face of geopolitical threats at the German Security Conference 2025.
Research Interests
Maritime Security and Strategy | Cybersecurity | Space Strategy
Publications (Selection)
- Brake, Moritz und Heinrich Walle (Hrsg.) „60 Jahre Deutsche Marine in Bildern“ (Mittler&Sohn, Bonn 2016)
- Brake, Moritz (Hrsg.) „Maritime Sicherheit - Moderne Piraterie: Herausforderungen, Gefahren und mögliche Gegenmaßnahmen" (Peter Lang Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, 2015)
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„Erkenne Dich selbst, Deutsche Marine!“, MarineForum 06/2022
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„What the European Union has to realise in security and defence“, im Interview in The European Security and Defence Union, 01/2022, Vol. 41
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„Europas Chance: Strategische Weltraumtechnologie“, mit Harald Kujat, Europäische Sicherheit & Technik (online), 11.07.2021, via: https://esut.de/2021/07/meldungen/28473/strategischeweltraumtechnologie/
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„Strategische Inspiration”, Rezension in Zeitschrift für Außen‐ und Sicherheitspolitik ZfAS, 06‐2021
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“Reviewing EU Strategic Foreign Policy in a Multipolar World Order”, The Defence Horizon Journal, 26.04.2021, https://www.thedefencehorizon.org/post/reviewing-eu-strategic-foreign-policy-in-a-multipolar-world-order
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“Building European Seapower: Reinvigorating EU naval strategy and maritime capabilities for the 2020s” with Sebastian Bruns, Tidskrift i Sjöväsendet, Journal of the Royal Swedish Society for Naval Sciences, No. 5, 2020
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„Towards a Standing European Union Auxiliary Navy” with Sebastian Bruns, Policy Brief, Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, July 2020, via: http://library.fes.de/pdf-files/bueros/bruessel/16408.pdf
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„Soldaten gegen Piraten: Der extraterritoriale Einsatz der deutschen Marine zur Pirateriebekämpfung im Lichte von Völkerrecht und Grundgesetz“, Rezension in Zeitschrift für Außen- und Sicherheitspolitik ZfAS 01/2019